Minecraft Live 2024 Speculations

A personal speculation of the Minecraft Live 2024 teasers

Author: SmokeyStack

Published: 27th September 2024

As a disclaimer, while I may be part of the volunteer moderation team of the Official Minecraft, Minecraft Legends, Minecraft Dungeons, and Minecraft Live Discord Servers, I have no affiliation with Mojang Studios or Microsoft.

Teasers!

Mojang Studios has released a series of teasers to build hype and speculation for what will be announced at Minecraft Live 2024. I'll be going through hopefully all the teasers they've released, give my thoughts and speculations.

Twitter Teasers

So this image was posted by Minecraft's Twitter account. We are definitely getting a new wood set evident by the non crossed out blocks. There are two theories I have: We are getting a white wood set or they purposely greyscaled the true colour. I am hoping if it is white wood, we can dye it any colour because that would be amazing. If it is just greyscaled I hope it is green wood. Of course, where there is a new wood set there is a new biome, with the exception of bamboo wood.

The other thing that is teased on this white board is a new hostile mob! It seems similar to an endermen due to the "Don't look" hint.

Instagram Teaser

So this image was posted by Minecraft's Instagram account. It's a death screen message. What I find interesting is they blurred eveything but "Steve was" in the death message. This leads me to believe that the new hostile mob has a unique way to kill you. Similar to how a Warden's sonic blast would say "Player was obliterated by a sonically-charged shriek". Also I noticed there is moss in the background, but it's not quite the moss colour. So this could be part of the new biome. So we know three things so far: There will be a new biome that has a new wood set and contains a new hostile mob.

TikTok Teaser

https://x.com/eckoxsoldier/status/1839022438207705579

I don't have TikTok but fortunately Eckosoldier posted the TikTok video to Twitter. This is really intersting. In the video our cameraman is walking when he turns around and sees the new hostile mob. He turns back and continues walking. He turns around again and the hostile mob is closer. He turns back and starts running but when he looks back the hostile mob is right in front of him. This video combined with the "Don't look" hint makes me think the new hostile mob is some sort of weeping angel, where you have to keep staring at it to prevent the mob from moving.

Coincidentally(or not), a Preview came out that day with some interesting changes.

May or may not be related. But today's preview just added a new field for the looked_at component which endermen use. Prepping for this new hostile mob perhaps?

-https://x.com/SmokeyStack_/status/1839012354253828255

Conclusion

Overall, I'm pretty excited to see them showcase these new features! Hopefully we'll be able to test these features in next week's Preview, although unlikely. We'll likely be able to test it when the 1.21.50 Preview cycle begins, so 3 weeks or so then.